Expanding its line-up of portable and waterproof speakers, Switzerland-based Logitech International on Wednesday launched the Ultimate Ears "BOOM 3" Bluetooth speakers in India for Rs 15,995.

The device would be available on Amazon India starting January 17 in dual-toned night black, sunset red and lagoon blue colours.

"Building on the renowned BOOM legacy we bring to you the new enhanced party power-house BOOM 3" said Sumanta Datta, Managing Director and Cluster Head, South West Asia and Indonesia, Logitech.

"Packed with powerful 360-degree sound and a two-toned fabric, 'BOOM 3' is waterproof and dustproof. After receiving an overwhelming response for the BOOM line-up from the Indian market we are all geared up to sway the market with the new speakers," Datta said in a statement.

The speakers also sport a two-toned, high-performance fabric and a "Magic Button" at the top of the device that essentially lets the users play, pause and skip tracks on the device without touching their phones.

The "BOOM 3" also comes with IP67 rating and improved Bluetooth range of up to 150 feet, thus, enhancing the portability.

The speakers are also compatible with the Ultimate Ears "POWER UP charging dock" for wirelessly charging the device.

Once paired with the redesigned "BOOM by Ultimate Ears" iOS app, users would also have one-touch access to all their favourite playlists on Apple Music, the company added.

"The 'itel A44 Air' breaks through by encompassing full screen display, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled dual camera and face unlock, all at a budget-friendly price," said Goldee Patnaik, Head of Marketing, itel Business Unit.

The device will be available on the e-commerce platform starting January 15.

"At Huami, it is our endeavour to provide our customers with the best of both fashion and technology. For the launch of Amazfit Verge in India, we have amplified the technological features on the wrist while maintaining our fashioned designs," Mark Mau, Senior Overseas Sales Director, Huami, said in a statement.

The company has also partnered with PR Innovations, a technology importer, to market the Amazfit Verge in the country.

With 1.3-inch AMOLED display, heart rate monitoring and notifications, Amazfit Verge is an integrated fitness solution for the health-conscious people.

The 16.7-million colour IPS LCD with a contrast ratio of 1500:1 also supports "Eye Comfort Mode".

The smartphone is equipped with a 4,000mAh big battery and Huawei's homegrown 12-nm Kirin 710 chipset for power efficiency.

It also supports power consumption optimisation for comprehensive energy-saving technology, with one-touch battery optimisation and suspension to inactive programmes to improve standby time to several days, the company claimed.

The device also includes Fingerprint 4.0 identification technology, extended storage and Simple Mode for elderly users.

The smartphone would be available online exclusively on Amazon.in starting on January 15, Huawei said.

It will be available with a limited period bundle offer on the platform with 'Boat ROCKERZ 255 SPORTS Bluetooth hands-free' worth Rs 2,990 for free.

Chinese electronics company Xiaomi on Thursday launched two new smart TVs and entered the home audio category with an Mi soundbar.

The two TVs -- Mi LED TV 4X PRO (55-inch) and Mi LED TV 4A PRO (43-inch) -- will be available for Rs 39,999 and Rs 22,999 respectively, starting January 15, the company said in a statement.

The Mi soundbar will be available via Mi.com and Mi Home stores for Rs 4,999, starting January 16.

"We launched Mi LED TVs last year. We hit many milestones, including becoming the number 1 smart TV brand in India by selling over a million units in 9 months," said Eshwar Nilakantan, Category Lead, Mi TVs.

Mi LED TV 4X PRO comes with a large 55-inch 4K UHD display with the panel featuring 10-bit colour depth, and support for HDR10.

Mi LED TV 4A PRO's 43-inch display features a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The same 20W audio from Mi LED TV 4X PRO (55) also features here, as does the Bluetooth remote.

Both the TVs are equipped with "Patchwall" OS by Xiaomi. PatchWall features content from 14 different partners with over 700,000 hours of content from Hotstar, Hungama, Sony Liv, Voot, Eros Now, Zee5, Hooq, Epic ON and others.

Taiwanese electronics major Acer on Monday unveiled the new thin and light Swift 7 (SF714-52T) notebook with a premium chassis at the CES 2019 here.

The device's ultra-narrow bezels make it virtually borderless, thus, giving the 14-inch notebook a 92 per cent screen-to-body ratio, the company said in a statement.

"With a screen-to-body ratio of 92 per cent, Acer customers can stay more productive with a compact, thinner and lighter notebook that feels 'barely there' while carrying it around through the day and during business travel," said Jerry Hou, General Manager, Consumer Notebooks, IT Products Business, Acer Inc.

"We designed the latest 8th-Gen Intel Core processors to deliver a complete platform with the performance to enable rich user experiences and the power efficiency to extend battery life, all in a fanless design," added Chris Walker, Vice President of Client Computing, Intel.

Researchers have developed a tiny, implantable device that may one day help people, who suffer from urinary incontinence, bypass the need for medication or electronic stimulators.

The device, developed by Washington University in St. Louis, US, can detect overactivity in the bladder and then use light from tiny, biointegrated LEDs to reduce the urge to urinate.

The team implanted a soft, stretchy belt-like device around the bladder of rats in a minor surgical procedure in the lab.

As the bladder filled and emptied, the belt expanded and contracted.

The researchers also injected proteins called opsins into the animals' bladders. The opsins are carried by a virus that binds to nerve cells in the bladder, making those cells sensitive to light signals.

This allowed them to use optogenetics -- the use of light to control cell behaviour in living tissue -- to activate those cells.

Using a simple algorithm, they could detect when the bladder is full, or the time when the animal has emptied its bladder, as well as when bladder emptying is occurring too frequently, the researchers explained, in the paper published in the journal Nature.

"When the bladder is emptying too often, the external device sends a signal that activates micro-LEDs on the bladder band device, and the lights then shine on sensory neurons in the bladder," said Robert W. Gereau IV, Professor at the varsity.

"This reduces the activity of the sensory neurons and restores normal bladder function," he added.

The strategy could also work on humans, but the devices would likely be larger and could be implanted without surgery, using catheters to place them through the urethra into the bladder, the researchers said.

It would be available across Reliance Digital, Croma, Helios and other retailers offline and online in black with a graphite aluminium case or blue-gray with rose gold aluminium case.

Fitbit Charge 3 Special Edition would be available at a price of Rs 15,999.

Charge 3 is the latest addition to the company's best-selling "Charge" family of devices, and comes with a swim-proof design with a large touchscreen display, our most advanced health and fitness features on a tracker and is our smartest tracker yet -- with up to 7 days of battery life, the company said in a statement.

"We've seen strong pre-orders for Charge 3, which are even better than Versa in its first six weeks, underscoring why the Charge family has been our most popular product line for the past few years," said James Park, Co-founder and CEO, Fitbit.

"Charge 3 features our most advanced sensor technology, bringing the relative SpO2 sensor to the tracker form factor for the first time. Data from this sensor will feed into the upcoming launch of our Fitbit Labs Sleep Score beta which will allow users to better understand metrics like their sleep quality and breathing disturbances," Park added.

Users can also set goals for calories burnt, distance, and duration and check real-time stats on the device.

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has started rolling out Android 9 Pie update for OnePlus 5 and 5T smartphones, weeks after releasing two beta builds of the Operating System (OS) for the two models.

The final version of the update arrives as OxygenOS 9.0.0, based on Android Pie OS and features the December security patches too.

"We are very excited to announce that the pie has been baked! And ready to be rolled out for OnePlus 5 and 5T. This is our first official Android 9 Pie OTA update for the OnePlus 5 and 5T," the company wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

The Over the Air (OTA) upgrade would also include a brand new user interface (UI) for Android Pie, new navigation gestures (for OnePlus 5T only) and updated Android security patch to December.

The upgrade also brings the integrated Google Lens mode into the camera.

"As always, this OTA will be incremental. The OTA will reach a small percentage of users today, and we'll begin a broader rollout in a few days," the company added.

The upgrade also brings gaming mode 3.0 that comes with a text notification mode and added notifications for third party calls.